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Luis Reyes

With more than 14 years covering the automotive industry, Luis Reyes is a seasoned voice in the field. A law graduate, he channels his curiosity and expertise into the detailed analysis of national and international regulations that shape the automotive world. At Autonocion.com, Luis combines his strong legal background with a deep passion for vehicles — especially those that have left a mark on automotive history. His experience writing for multiple brands across the industry has established him as a trusted authority. Luis is committed to sharing his expertise and enthusiasm with enthusiasts and industry professionals alike, with a firm belief in the continuous evolution and innovation driving the auto industry forward.

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boring machine Al Wugeish

A 2,000-ton boring machine named after a burrowing desert rodent just chewed 30 meters of ground under Dubai in a single day, more than double the pace of the machines that dug the city’s first metro — through wet, salty terrain laced with underground voids

07.13.2026
gordie howe international bridge

Two 722-foot concrete towers weighing 30,000 tons each hold the longest cable-stayed span in North America, 2,800 feet of deck with no piers touching the water — the bridge was finished in June and sat there closed for seven weeks while two governments argued over the toll money

07.13.2026
LASV75 autonomous vessel warship

A 246-foot drone warship displacing more than 1,000 tons is being designed with no bridge, no bunks and no galley, because nobody will ever sail on her — and the British shipyard that died in 2019 with one employee left says it can build two a year

07.13.2026
reflect orbital test mirror

A 35-pound Mylar mirror the floor area of an American house just got a license to unfold 625 kilometers up and bounce raw sunlight onto the night side of Earth, painting a moving 5-kilometer spot of moonlight on whatever target pays for it

07.13.2026
the boring company machine

Dubai just started casting the 25,000 concrete rings for a tunnel nobody has begun digging, 100 million pounds stacking up in a yard — the machine that installs them digs and lines at the same time, steered from a control room 8,000 miles away in Texas

07.12.2026
hanford vit plant melter

A 300-ton furnace in Washington State runs at 2,100 degrees and can never be switched off — if the glass pool inside ever freezes, the machine is dead — and it just turned the first 100,000 gallons of America’s worst nuclear waste into solid glass

07.12.2026
bagger machine excavator

Germany built the heaviest machine that has ever moved across land, a 14,196-ton excavator as long as two football fields that claws a soccer stadium of earth off a coal seam every day. It was built to reach the exact fuel the country is now racing to stop burning

07.12.2026
Eos Z3 zinc battery california

Two batteries built to sit in a shed for 25 years without fading just got hired where lithium fails: one stores charge in molecules dissolved in water on a Maldives island running on imported diesel, the other runs on zinc for a California tribe bracing for 18-hour wildfire blackouts — and neither one can catch fire

07.12.2026
gravitricity leith demonstrator

A 40-ton block of steel falling the height of a 30-story building banks eight hours of one home’s electricity, and that arithmetic never improved — the Finnish mine picked for Europe’s first gravity store now plans 530 megawatt-hours from falling water against steel’s 20

07.12.2026
compressorless gas turbine

German engineers just ran a hydrogen turbine with no compressor at all, the part that eats half of every gas turbine’s power — the squeezing happens inside the flame, detonation waves faster than sound slamming the gas up to pressure, and it made electricity for 303 seconds

07.12.2026
K3 Scout uncrewed vessel drone uk

A 28-foot drone boat just parachuted out the back of a military transport plane at 1,300 feet, hit the North Sea in 8-foot waves, cut itself loose from its sled and drove off on its own at up to 55 knots — four times in six days, same boat

07.12.2026
komatsu autonomous

A 320-ton driverless truck with 2,700 horsepower just became the 1,000th of its kind to go to work, hauling gold ore through Nevada on a fleet that has moved 11.5 billion tons of rock — while Waymo and Tesla still argue about 3,500 robotaxis

07.12.2026
cfr600 fuel reactor

While America has too much bomb-grade plutonium and not enough reactor fuel, spending real money to burn 20 tons of the surplus, China is finishing a pair of 600-megawatt reactors on an island off Fujian built to do the opposite, make more plutonium than they burn

07.11.2026
city labs bohr battery

A US company just launched a satellite the size of a coffee mug running on radioactive hydrogen, the first commercial nuclear spacecraft ever to fly — a battery with no moving parts that keeps working for 20 years in craters where the Sun never rises

07.11.2026
Dragonfire laser UK

While Germany burns drones with a laser on a tracked robot and Britain squeezes a 50-kilowatt beam onto a destroyer, an American company just blinded two drones with what amounts to an extremely rude flashlight — running inside optical safety limits

07.11.2026
bruce power reactor isotope cancer

A 40-year-old Canadian reactor cooks a cancer-fighting isotope inside its own core while still pushing 817 megawatts onto the grid, the same neutrons splitting uranium put to work breeding a drug that hunts tumor cells and starts decaying the moment it’s born

07.11.2026
UlyX drone

The strangest job an underwater drone has ever been handed: census-taker for the 200,000 barrels of radioactive waste Europe rolled off ships into the Atlantic, a robot mapping in 26 days what humans hadn’t looked at since the 1980s

07.11.2026
hysata electrolyser

While the green hydrogen industry hunts cheap solar and cheap grid deals, Australian engineers rebuilt the splitting machine around a kitchen sponge — and where today’s plants waste 13 kilowatt-hours per kilogram, theirs claims to waste 2.1

07.11.2026
Doosan Enerbility Changwon forging press

A 17,000-ton press in South Korea that swallows ingots of hot steel heavy as 300 pickup trucks will forge the hearts of America’s next 10 nuclear reactors, seamless cans built 6,600 miles from the sites they’re going into — because no machine in the US can do it

07.11.2026
hudson tunnel boring machine

A 1,680-ton German boring machine with a cutterhead over 28 feet across is being bolted together in a New Jersey trench to chew through rock so abrasive its cutters wear out every two days, on a route where 40 people work inside the machine

07.10.2026
airloom energy

While Britain finishes the largest wind farm ever built with machines 850 feet tall, a Gates-backed startup in Wyoming is running wings around an oval clothesline 80 feet off the ground, betting that deleting the tower and the crane beats reaching the better wind

07.10.2026
ge vernova hydrogen

American engineers just rebuilt a jet engine that spent its first life hauling 747s across oceans to burn pure hydrogen, a flame eight times faster than natural gas that climbs back up the nozzle and cooks the hardware feeding it — and the first four ever built have never run a single hour

07.10.2026
Transmutex swiss reactor nuclear waste

A Swiss reactor design promises to burn the nuclear waste that stays dangerous for 300,000 years down to material needing under 1,000 — but first somebody has to build a proton cyclotron nearly three times more powerful than the strongest one on Earth

07.10.2026
iver drone torpedo

A US company just launched a 4,921-foot fence that sits on the seabed to kill underwater drones with no explosives and no torpedoes, and it will not say what the barrier is made of. Four days later the Pentagon asked industry for exactly that

07.10.2026
amogy ammonia

A Brooklyn company runs a Class 8 semi on the metal-free fuel everyone else is trying to burn, splitting ammonia into hydrogen on board and filling the tank in eight minutes, and it just took the same box to a 40-megawatt power project in South Korea

07.10.2026
Pit Viper australia drill rig

Australia runs drill rigs that sink a 59-foot hole in a single pass with 75,000 pounds behind the bit and nobody in the cab, taking orders from a control room in Perth more than 900 miles away, and they’ve been doing it for ten years

07.10.2026
mochovce nuclear power plant

Slovakia just packed roughly eight million uranium pellets into a reactor in five days, 312 fuel assemblies holding 39,312 rods, and its operator says the plant will cover 77.5% of the country’s electricity consumption, more than anywhere else

07.10.2026
tokamak britain reactor us

A British tokamak just came apart after more than 5,000 plasma pulses, a squashed doughnut that hit 100 million degrees, six times hotter than the core of the Sun, held together by magnets pushing seven million ampere turns through a column at 11.8 tesla

07.09.2026
Hydromea ExRay drone

A 20-pound Swiss drone measures how much steel is left in a ship’s hull from inside a tank still full of water, blinking its data back through blue light, and a classification society signed off on it, which is what turns a clever machine into a billable job

07.09.2026
Zap Energy Century fusion machine

An American machine fires 500,000 amps down a column of gas twelve times a minute, twenty times the current of a lightning bolt, into a chamber the size of a water heater, and the fusion company that built it is now selling a fission reactor based on a Japanese design nobody ever finished

07.09.2026
Ocean Power Technologies PowerBuoy

An American drone boat just docked and recharged itself with no human aboard, the first step toward five ocean buoys that already pull their own power out of the water, one of them moored over 1,000 meters of seawater off San Diego

07.09.2026
swifty rock machine

An American engineer just spent his own savings buying back the last two robots that bore through rock without touching it, cooking 44,000-PSI quartzite with an 1,800-degree gas jet, after the company that built them folded

07.09.2026
agrivoltaic greenhouse tomatoes panels

Spanish researchers just grew tomatoes 40% heavier under a solar roof that stole a third of the light the plants needed, because the clear greenhouse next door was cooking at 120 degrees and the panel was working as an air conditioner made of glass

07.09.2026
magnet iter

America just lowered the final 110-ton coil into a 1,000-ton magnet as tall as a five-story building, threading it into a gap with two inches of clearance on one side, and its builder says the finished stack packs enough force to lift an aircraft carrier six feet out of the water

07.09.2026
Teledyne Slocum Sentinel glider

An American drone glider the Royal Navy just ordered can stay underwater more than two years on a single load of batteries, running the whole time on 23 kilowatt-hours, roughly what a US home burns in a day, because it barely uses a propeller at all

07.09.2026
hinkley point c

An ultrasonic scan found something buried in a weld on the lid of a 43-foot forged-steel reactor vessel being built for Britain in a French forge, the one seam on the one part a reactor cannot get wrong, and it’s throwing more of these flags than the identical vessel before it

07.08.2026
el daaba npp unit 2 rosatom

Egypt just seated a 700-ton machine under each of its first four reactors that is designed to do absolutely nothing for 60 years, a steel cone 20 feet across packed with sacrificial chemicals, built to catch a melting nuclear core exactly once if cooling ever fails and the fuel burns through the floor

07.08.2026
Kraken KATFISH sonar

A Canadian drone boat just launched its own sonar off Istanbul, ran a full seabed scan and hauled it back aboard with nobody on deck, reading the bottom down to 3 centimeters across a 400-meter strip, sharp enough to tell a mine from a rock and keep sailors off the minefield entirely

07.08.2026
Fukushima robotic arm TEPCO

Japan just rolled out a 4.6-ton robotic arm to reach the 880 tons of melted fuel inside Fukushima, and it folds accordion-style through a 22-inch hole like parallel-parking a school bus through a manhole, into a room so radioactive no human can ever step in to fix a mistake

07.08.2026
Odeillo solar furnace France

A French machine bolted to the side of an eight-story building is a magnifying glass big enough to melt tungsten, crushing a megawatt of sunlight onto a spot the size of a dinner plate at 3,000 degrees, and 57 years after it switched on nothing built since has out-cooked it

07.08.2026
hail damage solar panels

American solar farms now watch the sky and stand their panels bolt upright the moment a hailstorm crosses a 30-mile line, tilting to 77 degrees so four-inch stones falling at 85 miles an hour skid off the glass instead of punching straight through it

07.08.2026
BREST-OD-300 fast reactor

Russia just lowered a 143-ton steel shell more than 45 feet tall into a reactor it can never move again, 16,000 tons of steel and concrete poured in place like a cathedral that makes electricity, cooled by molten lead instead of water

07.08.2026
NOMARS At-Sea Demo drone

A 240-ton drone warship just ran 2,100 miles across open ocean with nobody aboard, docking itself and refueling from a crewed ship without a single person ever stepping onto it, and it’s now sitting its final exams before DARPA hands it to the Navy

07.08.2026
Western Harbour Tunnel TBM Sydney

Australia just started boring the final mile under Sydney Harbour with a 4,350-ton machine as heavy as 88 buses, and the strangest part is that crews built the whole five-story borer inside a cavern dug under a suburban cricket ground, with a hallway’s clearance to spare

07.07.2026
Westinghouse AP1000 module lift

America’s most expensive nuclear failure is getting a do-over, and it works only because somebody kept the receipts: two half-built reactors abandoned in 2017, their 39-foot vessel heads parked dry in a warehouse for nine years, just passed their first physical toward being finished

07.07.2026
AC-100M centrus reactor fuel

Sixteen centrifuges in a single Ohio hall just won the right to sell the only advanced reactor fuel America makes, about 900 kilograms a year, to a wave of new reactors that each need 15 to 20 tons just to start up

07.07.2026
Beyond EPICA ice core

A European team just drilled 2,800 meters to the bottom of Antarctica and pulled up a 1.2-million-year core of ice, then shipped every meter of it across the equator at minus 58 degrees so the ancient air trapped inside would survive the trip

07.07.2026
german electric drone

A German drone just flew 434 mph in level flight on nothing but batteries, faster than the Rolls-Royce plane that held the manned electric record, and it was never built to carry a camera, it was built to run down the kamikaze drones crossing into Ukraine every night

07.07.2026
Zuidwending gas storage Netherlands

The Dutch are washing a hole out of a salt dome a kilometer underground big enough to hold 200 gigawatt-hours of hydrogen, ten times any battery on the grid, in salt that seals its own cracks where steel would split

07.07.2026
hydrogen truck china

A 49-ton Chinese truck just ran 100,000 km on a piston engine that swallows hydrogen instead of gasoil, and China’s biggest truck maker cleared it through national certification, not a fuel cell, an actual diesel-shaped block burning H2

07.07.2026
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